What is Emacs ?

Emacs is the extensible,
customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. This
Editor is used to do a lot of things, from IRC to reading mails
and news, along with "basic" editing, advanced macro, remote
control, multimedia player, and so on..

This webpage is about EMMS, an Emacs "package" that you use
to extend Emacs features to multimedia.

EMMS, The Emacs Multimedia System.

EMMS is the Emacs Multimedia System. Emms plays multimedia
files from Emacs using a variety of external players.

Emms can be configured to be a minimalist player within
Emacs. However, Emms also comes with a host of features which
can be enabled: play streaming audio, tag music files, display
album art, search for lyrics, connect
to MPD, and much more.

News: EMMS 5.1 Released

Emms 5.1 was released November 1 2018. The release tarball is available here.

Check out
the NEWS
file for a description of all the new features and
the excellent
manual for how to use them.

News: EMMS 5.0 Released

Emms 5.0 was released May 1 2018. The release tarball is available here.

News: EMMS 4.4 Released

Emms 4.4 was released November 1 2017. The release tarball is available here.

News: EMMS 4.3 Released

Emms 4.3 was released March 1 2017. The release tarball is available here.

News: EMMS 4.2 Released

Emms 4.2 was released Nov 8 2016. The release tarball is available here.

News: New Emms release schedule

Emms is now on a half-year release schedule for point releases. However the VCS master is usually clean, stable and usable.

News: EMMS 4.1 Released

Emms 4.1 was released May 31 2016. The release tarball is available here.

News: EMMS 4.0 Released

Emms 4.0 was released July 27 2014. The release tarball is available here.

emms-player-mplayer: Remove code for loading movie subtitles automatically by emms, since mplayer has an option (`sub-fuzziness') controlling that

Support displaying lyrics in a dedicated buffer, to highlight playing lyric

Fix make install on Cygwin

Compilation errors cleanup

News: EMMS 3.0 Released Under the GPLv3

On 2007-06-29, the EMMS team proudly released EMMS 3.0. The
tarball is available
here. EMMS 3.0 includes a lot of new features, and is
released under the brand new GPLv3. Big thanks to the FSF to
make that license available!

Note that the development version is usually quite stable,
too. See here for further instructions.

Reporting bugs

You can just report bugs at emms-help {at} gnu {dot} org
(subscription required,
see here). A
patch along with the bug-report will probably make any bug-report
very welcome.You could also check out the current $HOME of
EMMS, on the EmacsWiki: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EMMS. You're very welcome to add bugreports,
feature-requests and even patches or comments there.

Copyright

EMMS is proudly part of the GNU Project.
The first alpha was made by Jorgen Schäfer (forcer {at} forcix {dot} cx)
and Ulrik Jensen (terryp {at} daimi {dot} au {dot} dk),
building upon the work of the mp3player-team, and others.